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Jonas Löffel's avatar
Jonas Löffel
Copper Contributor
Oct 11, 2018

Windows Server 2016 is not pingable while it can ping other devices and have DNS problems

Hello Community, I have the following problem: On my VMWare vSphere ESXi 6.7 I have two Windows Server 2016 VMs. One (WDS-01) provides the AD, DNS and DHCP Server, the other one (WDS-02) should pr...
  • Dave Patrick's avatar
    Dave Patrick
    Oct 15, 2018

    On DC1 remove the router address listed for DNS and replace with 172.29.114.52, then do ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /registerdns, and reboot.

    The ipconfig on "problemclient" is Ok.

     

    The two ipconfig files you put up both have the same hostname? Which would be problematic.

     

    For some reason root hints are IPv6 only. (would have expected IPv4)

     

     

    As a work around you can add your ISP or other public DNS as forwarders. (remove router address here as well)

     

     

     

     
     
     

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